https://gunesmurat.com/notes/ Notes by Murat Güneş en Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:03:12 GMT https://gunesmurat.com/notes/memory-systems-are-about-taking-ownership-of-ideas/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/memory-systems-are-about-taking-ownership-of-ideas/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The “your thoughts or source thoughts” dichotomy that frequently surfaces in the discourse around the Zettelkasten method is artificial and “theory-driven”. The point of… https://gunesmurat.com/notes/notes-on-wrestling-with-text/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/notes-on-wrestling-with-text/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Transcribed and somewhat fleshed out from notes on yellow A5 notebook, on 31.3.2025. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/microorganisms-are-physically-changed-upon-contact-with-various-chemicals-in-their-environment/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/microorganisms-are-physically-changed-upon-contact-with-various-chemicals-in-their-environment/ Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT Molecules stick to their surfaces and generate signals in the membrane, and trigger behavioral change. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/a-living-cell-contains-an-image-of-the-world-because-it-is-born-of-the-world/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/a-living-cell-contains-an-image-of-the-world-because-it-is-born-of-the-world/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT As The protein landscape of the cell constantly morphs in response to its environment, the cell builds a record of its recent and historical adaptation encounters, in multiple l… https://gunesmurat.com/notes/cellular-processes-work-with-addresses-through-microtubules-and-transport-molecules/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/cellular-processes-work-with-addresses-through-microtubules-and-transport-molecules/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT “Nuclear import signals” are targeting sequences rich in positively charged amino acids which constitute “addresses” for important locations in the cell. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/noise-has-determining-influence-over-genetic-processes/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/noise-has-determining-influence-over-genetic-processes/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT This note is currently a stub. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/proteins-in-cell-must-change-their-connections-morph-to-learn-new-tasks/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/proteins-in-cell-must-change-their-connections-morph-to-learn-new-tasks/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT This note is currently a stub. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/reinforcement-of-synapses-in-neural-processes-is-possibly-neural-recruitment-after-lakoff/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/reinforcement-of-synapses-in-neural-processes-is-possibly-neural-recruitment-after-lakoff/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT Something like what Lakoff refers to in his talks on YouTube (TODO: get proper bibliography) as “neural recruitment” must be happening in what Bray terms “reinforcement of… https://gunesmurat.com/notes/replicating-molecules-enclosed-themselves-in-lipid-containers-at-some-stage-of-the-rna-world/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/replicating-molecules-enclosed-themselves-in-lipid-containers-at-some-stage-of-the-rna-world/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT This note is currently a stub. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/the-protein-landscape-of-the-cell-constantly-morphs-in-response-to-its-environment/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/the-protein-landscape-of-the-cell-constantly-morphs-in-response-to-its-environment/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT A living cell contains an image of the world because it is born of the world. This image of the world is an abstraction of the cell’s surroundings, organized in chemistry. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/thermal-diffusion-is-the-mediator-for-cellular-computation/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/thermal-diffusion-is-the-mediator-for-cellular-computation/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT Brownian motion in a cell due to thermal fluctuations is the main mediator, the “substrate” of cellular computation. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/there-are-no-wires-the-mechanism-of-cellular-computation-is-diffusion-and-genetic-code/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/there-are-no-wires-the-mechanism-of-cellular-computation-is-diffusion-and-genetic-code/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT Since Thermal diffusion is the mediator for cellular computation, computation happens through the continuous high-intensity bumping of proteins into each other, and is determine… https://gunesmurat.com/notes/an-attention-like-mechanism-must-exist-for-the-cell-to-respond-to-simultaneous-stimuli/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/an-attention-like-mechanism-must-exist-for-the-cell-to-respond-to-simultaneous-stimuli/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT This note is currently a stub. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/biochemical-processes-at-cell-level-are-built-to-accommodate-massive-change/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/biochemical-processes-at-cell-level-are-built-to-accommodate-massive-change/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT This note is currently a stub. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/bray-wetware-2009/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/bray-wetware-2009/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT Bray, Dennis. Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/catalytic-closure-as-defining-trait-of-living-organisms/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/catalytic-closure-as-defining-trait-of-living-organisms/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT According to Stuart Kauffman, quoted in Bray, Wetware (2009), https://gunesmurat.com/notes/living-cells-have-an-intrinistic-sensitivity-to-their-environment-that-is-essential-to-survival/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/living-cells-have-an-intrinistic-sensitivity-to-their-environment-that-is-essential-to-survival/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT This note is currently a stub. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/living-organisms-build-and-repair-themselves-with-commonly-available-starting-materials/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/living-organisms-build-and-repair-themselves-with-commonly-available-starting-materials/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT That living organisms can build themselves and invent replacements for their missing parts out of the common materials found freely composable in the world. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/molecular-radar/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/molecular-radar/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:00:00 GMT Certain bacteria can secrete molecules to probe their environment. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/sound-material-determines-outcome-in-electronic-music-composition/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/sound-material-determines-outcome-in-electronic-music-composition/ Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT The sound material to be used has a unique role in the outset of electronic music composition. You “have to have the material” to be able to compose the music; it determines… https://gunesmurat.com/notes/novelty-in-electronic-music-arises-through-familiarity/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/novelty-in-electronic-music-arises-through-familiarity/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT In a sea of infinite possible choices, the composer of electronic music has to seek familiar ground to establish a common grammar with the listener; for the grammar of compositi… https://gunesmurat.com/notes/utilizing-full-range-of-sound-negates-interval-thinking/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/utilizing-full-range-of-sound-negates-interval-thinking/ Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:00:00 GMT Interval-based thinking in music composition comes in various guises: classical adherence to simple mathematical forms; the notion of scales; serial, spectral and minimalist aes… https://gunesmurat.com/notes/distinction-between-note-based-vs-timbraltextural-approaches-transcends-electronic-vs-acoustic-music-divide/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/distinction-between-note-based-vs-timbraltextural-approaches-transcends-electronic-vs-acoustic-music-divide/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:00:00 GMT As argued by Roads [^1], the main distinctive factor in current approaches to musical composition is that between the note-based vs. timbral/textural approaches. Roads argues th… https://gunesmurat.com/notes/economy-of-selection-in-electronic-music-after-roads/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/economy-of-selection-in-electronic-music-after-roads/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:00:00 GMT In the opening of Chapter two in Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic [^1], Roads points to “economy of selection” as the defining skill of the composer of electronic… https://gunesmurat.com/notes/electronic-sounds-from-a-computer-are-of-indistinct-provenance/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/electronic-sounds-from-a-computer-are-of-indistinct-provenance/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:00:00 GMT The classic problem of provenance in electronic music: Music played from a computer (or tape, or other electronic recording medium) has unidentifiable provenance, in contrast wi… https://gunesmurat.com/notes/multiscale-approach-to-composing-after-roads/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/multiscale-approach-to-composing-after-roads/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:00:00 GMT Dominant approaches in music composition involve preplanning (TODO: in contrast with M. Fell) (top-down) and in-situ generative (bottom-up). A multiscale approach, as suggested … https://gunesmurat.com/notes/problems-of-musical-organization-range-across-electronic-acoustic-music-divide/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/problems-of-musical-organization-range-across-electronic-acoustic-music-divide/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:00:00 GMT Per Roads [^1], problems of musical composition and organization are universal, and apply just as well to electronic music as they do to traditional / acoustic music. This is re… https://gunesmurat.com/notes/roads-composing-electronic-music-a-new-aesthetic-2015/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/roads-composing-electronic-music-a-new-aesthetic-2015/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:00:00 GMT Roads, Curtis. Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic". Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/satisficing-after-simon/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/satisficing-after-simon/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:00:00 GMT Invoked by Roads to denote how an electronic music composer may resort to options that merely “satisfice” the work. https://gunesmurat.com/notes/timbre-is-ill-defined/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/timbre-is-ill-defined/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:00:00 GMT Roads [^1] argues that timbre is ill-defined. This figures into my earlier thinking of how a spectogram is a stopgap measure, how it is not a 1:1 definitive representation of so… https://gunesmurat.com/notes/succintness-in-sound-after-utley/ https://gunesmurat.com/notes/succintness-in-sound-after-utley/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:00:00 GMT In the 2008 Sonicstate video, Adrian Utley talks about how Portishead prefers sounds that are “succinct”. They want the sound world to be self-contained and self-defining, t…